Manufacturing
Demo with sample data
Where your shop's hours go.
Enter what your shop handles in a month. See the hours a year that go to drawings, quotes, first article reports and part data, and what that time is worth.
Hours a year
1,447
- Cost a year
- $82,683
- Hours back
- 724
- Worth a year
- $41,341
- People freed
- 0.4
Same profit as new sales of
$492,158
What the numbers say
Each figure links to its source. Vendor claims are labeled.
2.52 min
Per dimension for skilled staff to draw machined parts by hand, the pace used for drawing time.
~1 min
Per dimension to balloon a drawing by hand, the pace used for first article reports.
8.4¢
Pretax profit per dollar of sales at US manufacturers with $10M to $25M in assets, Q2 2026.
$50.05/h
US median wage for a mechanical engineer. Estimators $37.86, inspectors $23.35, drafters $34.40.
How it works
- 01
Drawing time uses NIST's measured pace of 2.52 minutes per dimension. Ballooning uses about a minute per dimension.
- 02
Wages are US medians for each role, plus benefits and payroll taxes.
- 03
The last figure is how much new business it would take to earn the same profit, at 8.4 cents per sales dollar.
Good to know
Before you try it on your shop.
An estimate from typical paces and national wages until we measure your own work. The cost of the fix is not included.
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